Sara S. Gronim Assistant Professor Department of History C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University Email: sara.gronim@liu.edu

Professor Gronim is an historian of early America and the early modern Atlantic world. She earned an MA in history from Brooklyn College in 1992 and a PhD from Rutgers University in 1999. Her work draws heavily on the history of science, technology, and medicine. She teaches courses in early American and early modern Atlantic history, in public history, and in the history of medicine, the environment and cartography.

She is the author of two prize-winning articles, "At the Sign of Newton's Head: Astronomy and Cosmology in British Colonial New York," Explorations in Early American Culture (1999), and "Geography and Persuasion: Maps in British Colonial New York, William and Mary Quarterly (2001). She published "Imagining Inoculation: Smallpox, the Body, and Social Relations of Healing in the Eighteenth Century" in the summer 2006 issue of The Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Her book, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2007.